Most of my life I wondered why it's called "middle of the week" when actually Thursday's the day with an equal number of days in a week coming before and after. I often thought maybe weekend's subtracted. Only in my late 20s I learned that there are places where the first day of the week is Sunday lol

[–] MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The funny part is the green countries in this map don't start the week on a sunday. I guess they used to and the name stayed

[–] CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

Neither does the week start on Sundays in the blue countries

[–] Freeman 2 points 10 months ago

I'm swiss and I always assumed its because of the workweek being Monday to Friday. But only a few decades ago Saturday was pretty mich a workday as well, so that probably isnt it

[–] doctordevice@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

More directly, we can't agree if Sunday or Monday is the first day. IMO Sunday is the first day. Calendars look better with the weekends acting like bookends.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Index 0 vs Index 1.